The Institutional Risk Analyst

UBS ultimately seems intent upon running off the remaining US mortgage assets, including a few billion in Ginnie Mae MSR financings

The Q2 2023 disclosure for PACW suggests an institution that is bleeding cash and operating in extremis...

We expect to see USB trading at a discount to JPM and Peer Group 1 until the bank improves its operating leverage to pre-COVID levels.

Persistent talk about a 5.5% 30-year mortgage rate later this year is badly wrong as TBAs flip from 5.5% to 6% coupons for delivery in June

We recently added Western Alliance (WAL) and GHLD to our portfolio

The US government now owns the largest reverse lender in the country.

There are virtually no conventional lenders in the US today that are profitable when the sell a loan into the secondary market.

We speak with a revolutionary in the world of lending, Tom Showalter, Founder and CEO of Candor Technology.

We have long advocated the idea of an independent mortgage bank (IMB) combining with a strong regional lender

Because of forward liquidity and credit concerns, the window for IMBs to tap the public equity markets appears to have closed for now